KIEV, May 27 – The State Property Fund said it does not plan to put state stakes in Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) and AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines up for sale in the short term.

"Until the companies operate in the form of closed joint-stock companies, we should offer the state stake to the existing shareholders. I don’t see economic benefit in this," SPF Head Oleksandr Riabchenko said at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday.